The meeting was attended by 30 people, a good turn up for what was to
be the last meeting at the Fyshwick address.

	There was a letter from Gloria, giving news and observations from the
Solomons, she will be home next week, and Neville Anderson has been
told he will live after his operation, bit scarey that, and is likely
to be moved out of intensive care shortly.

	The treasurer advised that there was $300 in kitty, and he was off to
Thailand at the end of the month, have a nice trip Wolf, though the
$300 wont get you very far.

	It is obvious that the move to the new premises was underway, a number
of things had been packed up, the library had been all but removed.
Volunteers are required to help with moving on the 14th of the month,
that's a saturday. Help is needed both ends, Fyshwick and Belconnen.

	The next stuffing of the Sixteen Bits will be held at Belconnen, on
the 23rd September,  and it is expected that a number of stuffers will
drop out because of the location,  a plea has been made for stuffers,
particularly if you live in the Belconnen area.

	Woolongong has been lost as an IRC server, they now only take edu.au
domains, so for the next virtual C&C, Armidale will be used, see
http://www.pcug.org.au/~ejoseph/vcc  for the details. Emil also
advised that he would approach TIP committee to have our own IRC set
up, he now being in a position to be ircmaster.

	Phillip Bell had been thinking again, and started off a very wide
ranging discussion. Essentially he wanted to petition Optus to string
up cable in Canberra so cable modems could be used. This raised other
discussions on the Telstras Gungahlin "failed" project, Optical cable,
ACT politicians, rabble rousing greenies, easements in the ACT, and it
just went on and on. Good stuff, enjoyed it all.

	Ken Meadows has acquired an Amiga 500 and wishes to transfer data from
it to his PC. The advice was to get a Null Modem cable and
interconnect the two machine, then use a communication program to
transfer the data.

	Gordon Urquhart gave yet another exciting account of his adventures to
the auctions. It's all pretty scarey stuff, and if you want advice on
what to do and not to do at auctions, talk to Gordon. I think he is
taking the big step and get himself access to the internet, so you
should be able to catch up with him easily, soon.

	HP apparently suggest that the special colour paper sold with Lexmark
is suitable for HP. The Stationery Warehouse and harvey Norman sell it
for about $20 per hundred sheets.

	And that was it, the meeting was officially closed, and the yakking
kept on going. So watch this space for details on the next meeting
which is scheduled 17 September, and tentatively set to be held the
new premises, Northpoint Plaza which is opposite Dick Smith, which is
just up from Brashes which is....



Owen


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